Annie Besant Quote

“The true Mystic, realizing God, has no need of any scriptures, for he has touched the source whence all Scriptures flow.”

Annie Besant (1847 – 1933) was a prominent British socialist, theosophist, women’s rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule.

In 1867, Annie at age 20, married a clergyman and had two children, but Annie’s increasingly anti-religious views led to a legal separation.

She then became a prominent speaker for the National Secular Society (separation of church and state). In 1877 she and friend Charles Bradlaugh were prosecuted for publishing a book on birth control. The scandal made them famous.